smokingpen | July 25, 2009
Today started the official second half to the residency. For those that care, this summer has been, well, pretty crappy. Rain and the temperatures never getting very warm. The humidity has been through the ceiling and as a result, I don’t know that my body has ever really adjusted to the area(s) very well. With [...]
smokingpen | July 25, 2009
Well, back to the rapid fire blogging of an active residency (for me that is maybe more than once a day).
I did go home the other night, apparently minutes in front of a storm. The people who stayed, and were awake for it, said the storm that blew in was heavy and hard and that [...]
smokingpen | July 23, 2009
For those reaching this post first, I am a graduate student at Fairfield University in the Master’s of Fine Arts in Writing program and as a part of that program we are having seminars and panels on specific aspects of publishing and law regarding publishing as well as editors, publishers, and etc.
Joe is one of [...]
smokingpen | July 23, 2009
So, I am awake. Without details I will say I think this is a feat in and of itself. The problem is not that I can’t sleep or don’t sleep, but that things always seem to be happening around me – to include my reading and commenting on other people’s work. This means, frequently, that [...]
smokingpen | July 22, 2009
Because I am a first semester student at Fairfield University’s Master’s of Fine Art in Writing program and because this program is in it’s second semester and is trying to get off the ground, and because I think it is interesting and deserves to be shared, I am writing about my experiences, both personal and [...]
smokingpen | July 22, 2009
So, again, I am at the Fairfield University’s Master’s of Fine Art in Writing residency for Summer 2009, my first residency, and am currently sitting in the Publishing Panel, an informal panel of teachers/authors who have published and will be talking about their experience. I am going to try to make this a live blog, [...]
smokingpen | July 21, 2009
Today has been great. It always starts with breakfast at 7:45 a.m. which, I think, suggests that we aren’t very sensitive to the whole stereotypical writer working until the wee hours of the morning lifestyle, followed by our writer’s workshops. I will write more about those later.
In case you are unaware of what I am [...]
smokingpen | July 21, 2009
Really quick . . .
I spent most of last night awake and (somewhat) wired, as far as someone who lives his life in a perpetual state of sleep deprivation, can be wired; however, after a conversation with Erin from Ender’s Island to where Google told me Wal-Mart was located (and I found a Super Chop-n-Shop [...]
